17 Nov 2013

Today the long running Authors Guild vs. Google case ended for
all practical purposes.
Judge Denny Chin, who has been patiently overseeing the case for
nearly a decade, issued a short, clear
summary
judgement ruling in which he agreed that the Guild had no credible
arguments and granted Google's motion to dismiss.

Having bought some Bitcoins,
I figured I should try to buy something with them.
Fortunately, the coffee shop in which the vending machine is located says you
can pay with them.
But I couldn't just walk over from the machine to the counter.
First I needed to figure out how to use a wallet.

10 Nov 2013

I was at
IETF 88 last week in Vancouver.
Probably not by coincidence, a coffee shop a few blocks away had just installed
a Bitcoin vending machine, and since I've said lots of rude things about
Bitcoins (which are still pet rocks only without the rocks) I figured I should
go try it out.